Why
we can no longer afford George W. Bush Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006.
An excerpt from an essay in the March 2006 Harper's Magazine.
By Lewis H. Lapham. A country is not only what it does—it
is also what it puts up with, what it tolerates. —Kurt
Tucholsky
On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr.
(D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a
resolution inviting it to form "a select committee to
investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before
congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence,
encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against
critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for
possible impeachment."read
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IMPEACHING
GEORGE W. BUSH Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNetA lot of people just talk about
it; Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers went ahead and drafted
a concise indictment of President Bush. EXCERPT: ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT
Center for Constitutional RightsA new book lays out four clear legal arguments
that point to impeachment of President Bush as a necessary
remedy for the violation of our Constitution.
Order or Download Their recently published
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush.

ANDREW YOUNG: SHAMELESS SONBruce Dixon, The Black CommentatorHow could Andy Young, who used to
walk with Dr. King, become a corporate shill for Wal-Mart?

THE PEACE MOVEMENT'S PLAN FOR IRANJodie Evans, Tad Daley, Mimi Kennedy,
AlterNetThe Iranian nuclear crisis could
be dramatically defused, in a stroke, if American leaders
would simply say the right thing to Iranian leaders.

FIGHTING
WAR PROFITEERING,
TRUMAN-STYLESarah Anderson, AlterNetIf Rumsfeld hopes to bask in Truman's
aura as a military leader, he'd do well to take a stand against
the rampant corruption that is occurring on his watch.

TRASH
AND TREASURESPatrick Schabe, PopMattersGazing at the collected fragments
of other people's litter, a writer finds a little bit of himself,
and a lot of humanity, in the world of Found.